New testaments
Subtitle: cognition, closure, and the figural loss of the sequel, 1660-1740
By: Michael Austin
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Newark
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163
ISBN-13: 9781611493641; 9781611493658
Subjects: Technique; Rhetoric in the Bible; History and criticism; Fiction; Sequels (Literature); Bible; Closure (Rhetoric); Narration (Rhetoric); Language, style; English fiction
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Narrative closure as a cognitive problem; title: God's sequel; title: His great duel, not of arms: Davidic typology; title: And rhetorical combat in Paradise regained; title: The figural logic of the sequel and the unity of The pilgrim's progress; title: "Jesting with the truth": figura, trace, and the boundaries of fiction in Robinson Crusoe and its sequels; title: Everybody's story: Pamela as type; title: Conclusion.